William Barton & Omega Ensemble - Gift - Our Breath of Life (2025) Hi-Res

Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton is one of this country’s greatest musical voices - a fierce performer and prolific composer. Here he partners with the Omega Ensemble, hailed as ‘the best chamber music outfit in town’ (Sydney Morning Herald) and ‘one of Australia’s most forward-thinking ensembles’ (Limelight) for the world premiere recording of Gift – Our Breath of Life, a celebration of the rhythm of our bodies and the pulsing of the natural world as the wind travels the earth and rises to the sky.

The piece is, Barton says, a dedication ‘to the memory of one’s breath, the first breath we take as we are born into this world, and the last taken. Breath is the rhythm we breathe as our heartbeat pulsates throughout our body – our breath is our connection to one another. Each musician becomes the breath for one another, exchanging energy. As our earthly horizon arks to a peak in the sky we breathe – we breathe for the memory – we breathe for our loved ones.’